Building your family tree is easy when you have all the right tools!

Family Tree Heritage brings you powerful yet easy-to-use features to help you tell your family story. Searching for ancestors and creating your tree is just clicks away! Find records and important documents by searching the world's largest genealogy database.

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New Features Available in Family Tree Heritage Platinum

Family Tree Heritage Platinum 9 is a major upgrade to the previous version. It offers several exciting new features preferred by beginner and advanced Genealogists alike.

Research Timeline

The research timeline is intended to help you see clues that will assist you in researching your family history. This new tool allows you to see the events in a person's lifetime. Sometimes, when you see pertinent events that may have affected your ancestors, it draws your attention to other resources you could look at to learn more about them. There are several pre-designed event groups to choose from, and you can add your own events, as well. The Timeline view is interactive: go ahead and click on names, dates, places to see how it responds. A Timeline report is also available for printing.

Color Coding

There is a filing system based on four colors that has gained popularity among genealogists over the past several years. This highly requested and anticipated feature utilizes that concept and allows you to add background colors to the name boxes for individuals and/or family lines. The color coding will display on various screens and reports in FTH.

Tags

Create your own set of Tags and assign up to three tags to the various individuals in your database. This has proved to be a wildly popular new feature--some users cannot live
without them, now! The tags display on various screens and reports in FTH.

Fan Chart

The popular Fan Chart has just gotten better with two new options. With the color coding, you can now generate a Four-Color Fan Chart.
You can also now include siblings in the first generation of the chart.

I was amazed at how easy it was to find information about my Grandfather's parents. I was able to trace their heritage to Germany and Ireland-what a surprise! I had no idea my Grandfather’s Father was from Ireland.– Mary Wolf, Iowa

I found it very easy to build my family tree. The program is full of features—this will truly be a family treasure for years to come! – Jonathan Cooper, Oregon

I created a Family Book to share at our reunion this summer. It was so professional, my siblings were surprised and thrilled—it was a very special way to share all of my research.– Mary Anne Connors, Texas

Learn More About New FamilySearch.org

The New FamilySearch

The Family Search Menu on the Toolbar has features to help you perform advanced searches for your ancestors to the largest genealogy database in the world. This database has recently
been opened to the public and is accessible from the interface of FTH.

Register on FamilySearch

If you haven't already registered on FamilySearch, you will need to register to access the
FamilySearch database. You can register at: www.FamilySearch.org. Go to the "Sign In" page,
then select the option to create an account. Use this new account ID and password to sign into FamilySearch from within Family Tree Heritage.

Make Sure Your Registration is Complete

If your registration is not successful, you will need to sign in to FamilySearch one time to activate your account, at www.FamilySearch.org. After this you will be able to login to FamilySearch from within FTH by selecting "Login" from the FamilySearch option on the Tool Bar.

Search for Ancestors on FamilySearch Directly from Family Tree Heritage

To perform searches for your ancestors on FamilySearch, highlight an ancestor on the Pedigree View and click the Tree Icon on the Tool Bar. The search will take place automatically to
FamilySearch.

Search for Ancestors on Ancestry.com Directly from Family Tree Heritage

To perform searches for your ancestors on ancestry.com from FTH, click on the trees listed next to your ancestor's name on the Pedigree View. The search will take place automatically to
Ancestry.com. If you don't subscribe to this website, you will not be able to access the records. This is included in the software for the convenience of many advanced Genealogists who
subscribe to this database in addition to FamilySearch, which does not require a paid subscription.